Unfortunately, Band-in-a-Box has a resolution of 120 ppq. I find this to be
one of the more unfortunate limitations of the program. IMHO 240ppq is the
absolute minimum necessary for MIDI.

I have gotten around that limitation by writing some "Norton Music
Expanded" styles. In my "Norton Music Expanded" styles, I have made one
Band-in-a-Box measure equal to only one half measure of music. For most 4/4
songs, you need to expand the song in Band-in-a-Box to get it to work, and
that is why I call them "Norton Music Expanded" styles.

There are a few advantages to these "Norton Music Expanded" styles.
(1) The effective resolution is 240 ppq
(2) you can fit up to 8 chords per measure (since one BiaB measure is only
a half measure of music).
(3) you can play a chord on the eighth note before the beat and another
chord on the beat (something you cannot do with anything but the expanded
styles)

On the other side of the coin, your sequencer can give too much resolution
if it exceeds the bandwidth of the MIDI signal. I am not sure what that is,
but I find that after 960ppq I cannot hear any difference, even at the
slowest tempos.

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Though 120 ppq is only minimumly acceptable by today's midi
sequencing standards, I somehow recall the timing resolution of an
earlier (Mac) version of Band In The Box was even much less. Does
anyone know what the timing resolution of Band In A Box version 7 and
earlier (both PC & Mac platforms) was? I somehow recall it was
something like 48ppq, though I could be remembering wrong.

I wonder if PG Music has any plans to further improve the timing
resolution in future releases of Band In A Box. Is that hard to do?

Thanks,

Scotty

Janice McDonald

Hello Scotty, Why not write to the BIAB Forum and ask them what their plans are? Maybe you caould add that to the growing wishlist? Janice

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, Mar 9 4:22 AM

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Hello Scotty,

Why not write to the BIAB Forum and ask them what
their plans are? Maybe you caould add that to the
growing 'wishlist?'

> Thanks Hank & Bob "Notes" Norton for the valuable
> info regarding Band
> In A Box (Windows) version 10's 's timing resolution
> (120 parts per
> quarter note).
>
> Though 120 ppq is only minimumly acceptable by
> today's midi
> sequencing standards, I somehow recall the timing
> resolution of an
> earlier (Mac) version of Band In The Box was even
> much less. Does
> anyone know what the timing resolution of Band In A
> Box version 7 and
> earlier (both PC & Mac platforms) was? I somehow
> recall it was
> something like 48ppq, though I could be remembering
> wrong.
>
> I wonder if PG Music has any plans to further
> improve the timing
> resolution in future releases of Band In A Box. Is
> that hard to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scotty
>
>
>
>

Bob 'Notes' Norton

... As far as I know, it has always been 120ppq, but that is not an official answer. Although I have the Mac version, I don t use it as much as I do the

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, Mar 9 5:15 AM

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>At 06:42 AM 3/9/01 +0000, Scottyee@... wrote:
>...
>Though 120 ppq is only minimumly acceptable by today's midi
>sequencing standards, I somehow recall the timing resolution of an
>earlier (Mac) version of Band In The Box was even much less.

As far as I know, it has always been 120ppq, but that is not an official
answer. Although I have the Mac version, I don't use it as much as I do the
Windows version (the Windows version has always been better).

>Does
>anyone know what the timing resolution of Band In A Box version 7 and
>earlier (both PC & Mac platforms) was?

PC version has been 120 ppq since I started writing styles waaaaay back on
version 4.

>I wonder if PG Music has any plans to further improve the timing
>resolution in future releases of Band In A Box. Is that hard to do?

I don't know how hard it is to do, but I know that PG will probably not
change it unless PG can figure out a way to keep it backwards compatible. I
for one would like to see it doubled.

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